Finance & Services
Maddocks offers legal expertise to a range of clients from the finance and services sectors, including banks, financial institutions, fund managers, professional services firms, large corporations and privately held businesses.
We have an industry focus on the following sectors:
- education
- finance
- financial services
- health
- information, communications and technology
- private equity
- professional services
Education
Maddocks advises universities, registered training organisations and schools on all aspects of their business. We also advise government and regulatory bodies responsible for oversight of the education sector.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- regulation and compliance, including compliance audits
- employment law and workplace relations
- protection, licensing and commercialization of intellectual property
- transactional services, including joint ventures, acquisitions and divestments
- infrastructure projects, including new building works and public private partnerships
Finance
Maddocks advises financiers, borrowers and other intermediaries, providing strategic advice and practical structuring solutions for all types of financing.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- property investment and development finance
- corporate finance
- project and infrastructure finance
- structured finance
Financial services
Maddocks advises fund managers, trustees of corporate and industry superannuation funds, trustee companies, card issuers and suppliers of services to the financial services sector.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- establishment and structuring of funds
- capital raising
- new financial products and product disclosure
- financial services regulation and compliance
- funds management
- direct investment, including in property, infrastructure and private equity investments
- investment management and custodial services
- superannuation
Health
Maddocks advises clients in the pharmaceutical, health and aged care services sector. We advise listed corporations, private companies, not-for-profit organizations, medical practitioners, industry bodies and government departments and agencies.
We offer expertise in the following areas
- medico-legal, health and pharmaceutical law
- regulation of the health sector
- protection and licensing of intellectual property
- employment law and workplace relations
- transactional services, including commercial supply chain contracts, acquisitions and divestments
- infrastructure projects, such as hospitals and aged care facilities
Information, communications and technology (ICT)
Maddocks advises telecommunications carriers, internet services providers, content providers, infrastructure providers and other suppliers to the ICT sector. We also advise regulatory bodies and buyers of ICT services.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- industry regulation and compliance
- commercial and transactional services
- procurement and supply contracts
- protection and licensing of intellectual property
- software development and commercialisation
- supply of telecommunications and information technology services
- business process outsourcing
- facilities management
- disputes resolution
- ICT infrastructure projects and procurement
Private equity
Maddocks advises private equity fund managers, corporate and individual investors, companies seeking capital and management teams on private equity and venture capital transactions.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- raising and investing seed capital
- raising and investing development and expansion capital
- leveraged acquisitions and management buy-outs and buy-ins
- funding structures, including equity capital, senior and mezzanine debt and hybrid securities
- management incentive arrangements, including equity ratchets and employee share plans
- risk management strategies, including due diligence
- buy and build strategies
- exit strategies, including IPOs, sell downs and trade sales
- the establishment and structuring of private equity funds, including venture capital limited partnerships, trusts and foreign investment structures
Professional services
Maddocks understands the professional services industry and works closely in an advisory capacity with accountants, business advisers, insolvency practitioners, engineering, environmental and planning consultants and real estate professionals.
We offer expertise in the following areas:
- corporate structuring and capital raising
- transactional services, including acquisitions, mergers and divestments
- corporate administrations, liquidations and receiverships
- business recover and reconstruction strategies
- professional liability
- employment law and workplace relations
- commercial contracts